Did you notice a distinct lack of nude or nearly nude women prancing around in the background of your Super Bowl ads this year? Yeah, me too. Even The New York Times noted that the ads this year tended toward the "warm-fuzzies" route.

For example, GoDaddy, which tends to be among the Super Bowl advertisers most likely to exploit the female form, chose in one instance to feature a woman with a more commonplace body, and in another to feature a female body builder in a distinctly non-sexual light.

A Budweiser commercial with Arnold Schwazenegger, Minka Kelly, and Don Cheadle featured a clothed and named woman — an actor who gave her name as Kelly — who initiated the whole screwy situation in which hapless Budweiser customer "Ian" is introduced to Arnold, Don, a llama named Lilly, and Minka — who also speaks! And is wearing clothes! Two speaking, clothed, and named women, in one ad. Way to go Bud!

This is all a step in the right direction, but it doesn't mean we've found the the fabled unicorn of feminism known as gender parity. In fact, we still have a long way to go in improving how we represent women in the media today.

Fifty-six ads aired during the Super Bowl. Let's take a closer look at the gender breakdown in each, and you'll see that we're still not at a place where men and women are represented equally.

In his breakdown of the ads over at Slate, Seth Stevenson asked if the male celebrity nudity of David Beckham for H&M — the only nudity featured the whole night — represents progress.

No, it does not. Replacing scores of naked, nameless, often faceless women with one naked celebrity man does not mean we're automatically all good here. I appreciate naked David Beckham and shirtless bodybuilders as much as the next straight woman, and some of this may sound like nit-picking at "one woman here, two women here, mostly men here."

But the nit-picking will remain necessary until we see the same number of ads, celebrity and non-celebrity alike, that prominently feature men and women. It's good to see America's retailers trying a bit harder than in years past. Let's make sure they keep trying.